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Describe How Money Barter, and Credit Were Used in Colonial Virginia
Fourth graders listen as the teacher lectures about bartering. They work in small groups to define and create a skit about one term related to bartering. Students create an Economic Terms booklet. They review that tobacco was a cash crop...
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Trade and the Global Economy
Students discuss the role of trade and a global economy. As a class, they identify the costs and benefits of trade and how it is being questioned in today's society. They discover what is imported to the United States and the role of...
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Worksheet #19 Questions - Trade in the New World
In this trade in the New World quiz worksheet, students test their knowledge on various historical terms in ten fill in the blank questions.
Council for Economic Education
The Silk Road
The Silk Road connected the European, Middle Eastern, and Asian worlds. It also helped create the modern trade world. An analysis activity makes the importance of this Chinese innovation clear by asking participants to evaluate trades...
Federal Reserve Bank
Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression
There are so many ways to use a potato: bake it, fry it, or barter it. The lesson explains the concepts of bartering, money, and goods and services with a story that takes place during the Great Depression. Academics complete group...
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Why We Trade: Exchanging Goods and Services
Students conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.
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Bartering Through the Seasons
Fifth graders explore bartering. In this bartering lesson, 5th graders investigate bartering between the American colonies. Students study the climate and geography of neighboring colonies and investigate crops native to each area.
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Battering Through the Seasons
Students define bartering and barter to investigate supply and demand. In this bartering lesson plan, students read A New Coat for Anna and recall how they exchanged merchandise in the story. Students complete a sequential graphic...
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Saturday Sancocho
Second graders identify the economic principles and processes that are helpful to producers and consumers when making good decisions. Students will read, comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary text as well as explain how...
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Market Simulation
Students explore the role of markets in Asian countries. They bring items from home to barter with to simulate markets. They discuss the advantages and problems of exchanging and how price is determined.
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Interdependence: A Colonial Example
Students complete a variety of activities related to Colonial America and how people lived at that time. They conduct research on a selected colonial trade and present an oral report as role-playing that craftsman, and participate in a...
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I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum
Students engage in a discussion about their experiences with goods, services, and money. In this bartering lesson, students read The Wampum Bird story and brainstorm their personal experiences with economics.
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We're in the Money
Students study money and its place in the economy. In this middle school Consumer Math lesson, students explore the barter system and the need for money. Students explore how money works in society and explore modern money and money in...
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Learning Economics through Comics
Students summarize the historical development of money. In this economics lesson, students describe the process of bartering and explain how money facilitates trade and exchange. Students also define and describe inflation and a modern...
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Jamestown's Economy
Students identify items made in Jamestown and draw conclusions about their economy. In this Jamestown economy instructional activity, students use the internet to complete a worksheet which required them to look at photographs of goods...
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The Wonders of Ancient Civilizations
Bring excitement and interest to your social studies with a unit on ancient civilizations.
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Trade Along the Silk Road
Students do a jigsaw activity that will enable them to understand the dynamics of the Silk Road trade.
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Emissions Trading
Learners produce manufactured good, barter for sales, encounter government officials, make choices about emissions, trade carbon credits and share findings in order to understand how carbon trading could affect industry from an economic...
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Ancient Egypt: Domestic Life: Bartering
In this ancient Egypt learning exercise, students read about bartering in the marketplace. Students find the value of 4 items and draw the things you could barter them for.
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Basic Trading
Young scholars review the basic ideas of exchange. In groups, they discover the incentives for trade and participate in a simulation. They are given a packet of stamps which are worth varying monetary amounts. They discover the concepts...
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Colonial Tobacco Economy
Tobacco as money? Middle schoolers investigate how eighteenth-century Virginia farmers used tobacco as a cash crop to buy tools, livestock, and household goods. They also examine the connection between tobacco production and the slave...
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Why Money?
Students participate in a trading simulation to learn about barter and the benefits of using money. In this barter lesson plan, students participate in a trading simulation and learn about coincidence of wants. Students then use money...
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Money as a Means of Exchange
First graders discover the term bartering as used to pay for wanted items. They play a bartering game to discover exchanging goods for wanted items and play the computer money game on the "Show-Me Economics" web site.
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A Lesson to Accompany "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy"
Young scholars investigate the role of money in the colonial economy. In this colonial economy lesson, students participate in a trading activity, read the booklet "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy," participate...